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...spring Ellen DeGeneres told everyone she was gay. Now it's fall and she's telling everyone she's not happy. ABC put an onscreen parental advisory on last week's episode of her show, saying it may be unsuitable for children under 14, because Ellen has a lengthy, although jokey, kiss with her co-star. DeGeneres, who feels the advisory sends a message to kids that there's something wrong with being gay, is said to be threatening to walk off the show...
Here's how they work: small motors inside the base of the sticks send jolts and vibrations to the handle in synch with the action onscreen--from the bumpy roads in Activision's Interstate '76 to the shudder of a quarterback sack in ABC's Monday Night Football...
...exception. Netscape unveiled a souped-up version of Communicator 4.0 in late August, and Microsoft will unwrap Explorer 4.0 this week. Both programs are jammed with features, most of which have the effect of making the Web more like TV. Each browser has "channels" for content, and onscreen control pads that evoke a TV remote...
...extraordinary for the Web. "I spend the majority of every day thinking about how best to communicate with writers," says Field. "And that's what did it." The letters work. Moody (The Ice Storm, Purple America), who doesn't use the Web and can't imagine anyone reading onscreen, got half a dozen of the letters. "They kept sending me letters saying, 'I love your work. I love your work.' And I kept saying, 'I don't have any time. I have nothing to say about this.'" Eventually he relented. "I'm against online publications in principle, but just found...
Growing up onscreen, Dorothy was pretty as a Keane picture, vivacious as Betty Boop, and slim--slim as a black actress's chance of movie stardom in the whites-only golden age. Nina Mae McKinney (in Hallelujah) and Fredi Washington (in Imitation of Life) had radiated passion and depth, but by the late '30s Hollywood was consigning blacks to comedy roles and musical numbers...